Dev Patel adventure The Green Knight is a haunting masterpiece of blood, sex and magic
The movies have not been kind to King Arthur’s court. Think Sean Connery in 1995′s. The year 2017 alone dealt a particularly mighty blow, with the Arthurian era getting mangled by not one but two big-budget medieval migraines . But just as legend foretold – somewhere in an ancient film-critic text, I’m sure – now along comes, a beautiful, haunting and enigmatic work that reckons with the folklore’s grave and tragic elements to deliver a masterpiece of blood, sex and magic.
More vegetation than man – as rendered by Lowery’s team, he looks like a cross between Swamp Thing and’s Groot – this Green Knight throws a deadly challenge to the King’s assembled Round Table: strike me down and claim my prized axe – but prepare to receive a similar blow one year hence. There is, naturally, a twist to provocation: one that sets Gawain off on a long, perilous journey outside the castle walls, where the laws of the old faith and the new are at constant war.
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